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'ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III' [‎81r] (166/739)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (367 folios). It was created in 1898. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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^ 107
No. 70— conid.
Ghurian to Kauman, via iazdan i Sfc,
No.
of
stage.
D istances
in miles.
Names of stages.
Intermc-
diate»
Total.
B hm I bks.
Valley of the Fakh End, which comprises the
Sanikhana district, is a high level valley, being
bordered on the north by the high mass of hills
culminating at the north-west end in the Shahz
Koh peak, height 9,201 feet and further east the
Kuh-i-Safed, height 9,258 feet.^ Its southern
boundary is formed by range of hills forming the
north watershed of the Birjand river and its
culminating point is 7,996 feet.
>
Birjand, height 4,540 feet. Direct road from
Eahnish crosses valley and then gops over a few
low spurs for 2 miles and emerges into the dasht
of valley of Birjand river across which plain it
runs direct to Birjand, situated on the banks of
the stream just near the end of ridge of low clay
hills which run curiously all down the fcentre of
the valley.
10
Biejand
4,740'.
14
176J
Birjand is a poor looking town with no trees.
River is dry except during floods. Town un-
wailed and supplied with water from Jcarezes.
Very poor country all in the Birjand valley with
very little water.
11
Taghab
16|
192^
Taghab, height 4,110 feet. Marched down river
bed through town. Koad runs straight down
the Birjand valley, passing about 4 or 5 miles
out group of villages, Amirabad, Husenabad, etc.
Thence passes down bare valley ^ which here
averages 8 or 9 miles wide with hills on either
side. At 15 miles passed valley of Seanjan and
went on 1| miles to Taghab, a good-sized village;
the water being, as usual, from Jcarezes ; firewood
scarce.
12
F idishk
3,880'.
81
200|
Road passing through Taghab runs along highest
left bank of Birjand stream for about IJ miles
till it comes to junction of Khusp river on left.
Banks here about 18 feet high and a little
broken back in places. Khusp bed seems
larger than Birjand river-bed. Road then
goes up left bank of combined stream. At
8 miles it passes village of Kosha on lett
bank and that of Shahzada on rfeht bank. A
good strip of ground here on either bank is
cultivated, chiefly grain crops and cotton.

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The volume is a Government of India official publication entitled Routes in Persia. Section III. Compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter Master General's Department in India (Simla: printed at the Government Central Printing Office, 1898).

The volume contains details of all land routes (numbered 1-247) in Persia starting from Russian territory and extending south as far as a line drawn from Karmanshah [Kermānshāh] south-eastwards through Burujird [Borūjerd], Isfahan [Eşfahān] and Yazd to Karman [Kermān], and thence north-east to Khabis [Khabīş] and Neh to Lash Juwain [Lāsh-e Juwayn].

The information given for each route comprises:

  • number of route;
  • place names forming starting point and destination of route;
  • authority and date;
  • number of stage;
  • names of stages;
  • distance in miles (intermediate and total);
  • remarks (including precise details of the route, general geographical information, and information on smaller settlements, local peoples, agriculture, condition of roads, access to water, supplies of wood, and other routes).

An appendix within the volume (folios 356-359) and two separately-stored sets of loose sheets (containing routes numbers 77 (a) and 140-A, folios 363-369) give information too late for incorporation in the body of the work.

The volume also contains pockets attached to the front and back inside covers for maps. These consist of an index map showing the limits of each of the three sections of Routes in Persia (folio 2) and an index map to the routes in Section III (folio 361). There is also a fold-out map of the route from Seistan [Sīstān] to Mashad on folio 232.

An ink stamp on the front cover records the confidential nature of the publication and that it was being transmitted for the information of His Excellency the Viceroy (Victor Alexander Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin and 16th Earl of Kincardine) only.

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1 volume (367 folios)
Arrangement

The volume contains an alphabetical cross index (folios 6-17), and an alphabetical index to names of places (folios 18-25).

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover and terminates on the last page of the loose supplementary sheets (found in the small grey folder within the main folder); these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.

Pagination: the volume also contains a printed pagination sequence.

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